Galway Cartoon Festival makes its bow

Tue, Oct 17, 2017

A NEW entry into the city’s crowded calendar of festivals is the Galway Cartoon Festival, which arrives next week and runs from October 21 to 30, with the aim of celebrating and showcasing drawings which make us laugh and make us think.

Join JSB for Run in the Dark Galway 2017!

Tue, Oct 17, 2017

Global Run in the Dark funds Mark Pollock Trust’s mission to fast-track a cure for paralysis.

Cinema review: The Snowman

Films Reviews Mon, Oct 16, 2017

WITH 2008's Let The Right One In, director Tomas Alfredson made one of the best film I have ever seen - a hauntingly powerful vampire film which has since been remade for an American audience and turned into a stage play.

Who are you going to see at the Comedy Carnival?

Thu, Oct 12, 2017

WITH LESS than two weeks to go to the biggest comedy festival this town has ever seen, there are still tickets available for an array of great shows at the Vodafone Comedy Carnival - so much so, it's hard to know where to start!

Get Pulled at the Town Hall

Thu, Oct 12, 2017

"GET YOUR coat, you've pulled!" is one of the oldest, cockiest, and certainly cheesiest 'chat up' lines ever devised by the fallen mind of man - and who else but a certain kind of man would think such a line might work?

When Anna met Adrien

Thu, Oct 12, 2017

IN GERMANY, just after The Great War, grieving Anna comes across a young Frenchman, Adrien, laying flowers at the grave of her fiancé Frantz.

Album review: Liam Gallagher

Music Reviews Thu, Oct 12, 2017

THE CLUE is in the title. This is not about reinvention ("I didn’t want to be reinventing anything or going off on a space jazz odyssey," Liam has said.) It's about a return to terra firma after Oasis's end and Beady Eye's failure.

Liam O'Flaherty's WWI records to go on display in Galway

Thu, Oct 12, 2017

IN SEPTEMBER 1917, while fighting in Flanders during World War I, Liam O’Flaherty was seriously injured, suffering shell-shock, the trauma of which remained with him all his life.

Wyvern Lingo - new single, Róisín Dubh gig

Thu, Oct 12, 2017

WYVERN LINGO have just released their new single, 'Out Of My Hands' - their most candid, politicised song to date - and have announced a gig at the Róisín Dubh as part of their 2018 tour of Ireland.

'Give us the dancefloor and we’ll devastate the club'

Thu, Oct 12, 2017

HIS APPETITE for music is boundless, his belief in its power as a unifying force which can cross social divisions is deeply held, and in the Electric clubnight MOVE, DJ John Daly turns that passion into practice.

Bounce your way to Baboró

Thu, Oct 12, 2017

BOUNCE, A delightful blend of acrobatics, music, and a very physical form of dance, with a captivating live soundtrack, comes to this month's Baboró International Arts Festival for Children.

Rosie Carney to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Oct 12, 2017

BORN IN Hampshire in 1997, and moving to Ireland when she was 10, Rosie Carney grew up in Downings, a Gaeltacht village amid the vast, rugged landscapes of the Rosguill peninsula, County Donegal.

'My style is more storytelling and energy, just madness more than anything'

Thu, Oct 12, 2017

FROM COMEDY sketches about life in the GAA to more serious issues about mental health, it is likely you will have come across the work of Rory O'Connor if you are a regular user of Facebook.

Book review: Poets unblinking in the face of breast cancer

Literature Reviews Thu, Oct 12, 2017

IF YOU are a woman, or have a mother, wife, girlfriend, sister, or daughter, the poems included in this new anthology, Bosom Pals: Eight Poets Share Their Experience of Breast Cancer could, some day, perhaps even today, prove invaluable.

A night of one acts plays in Loughrea

Thu, Oct 12, 2017

A NIGHT of one act plays, by the writers Paul Maher, Barry McKinley, and Stephen Smith, will be performed by the Seumas O’Kelly Players, in the Temperance Hall, Loughrea, next week.

Mundy brings Jelly Legs to Monroe's Live

Thu, Oct 12, 2017

ON OCTOBER 14 1996, an Offaly singer-songwriter going by the name of Mundy released his debut album, Jelly Legs, on Epic Records, a subsidiary of Sony. It won critical praise and sold 60,000 copies around the world.

Chasing Abbey to play Monroe’s Live

Thu, Oct 12, 2017

CHASING ABBEY, the Irish hip hop trio called "one of the most promising bands in the country” wplay Monroe’s annual fancy dress party this October Bank Holiday weekend.

Aslan return to The Quays

Thu, Oct 12, 2017

LONG RUNNING Irish legends Aslan play a one-off gig in The Quays Music Hall this month and lead singer Christy Dignham has said: "The atmosphere at our gigs in Galway has always been amazing. Don't forget to bring your singing voice."

A choral concert in St Nicholas'

Thu, Oct 12, 2017

"MUSIC AND song gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and charm and gaiety to life and everything." So said Greek philosopher Plato, in a poetic way of stating - music is good for you.

Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway, so many great acts!! THIS IS A MUST!

Wed, Oct 11, 2017

With less than two weeks to go to the biggest comedy festival this town has ever seen, there are tickets available for so many great shows that it’s hard to know where to start.

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